What will the resistance look like in 2026?

Resistance groups are looking ahead to 2026 and making plans.

MoveOn intends to mobilize more people. A lot more people. Katie Bethell, MoveOn’s executive director, said in a call this week that mobilizations like No Kings “need to grow.”

“Seven million people in the street in October was amazing,” she said. “What an accomplishment! The largest single protest day in America! And next year, we need to double that. We need to triple that to fight back against what’s happening in this country.”

Indivisible is turning a lot of its attention to the Democratic primaries and then the general election.

“Ready to turn the page on failed Democratic leadership?” the organization asks. “The clock is ticking, and we don’t have time for dead weight in the Democratic Party. It’s time to clean house.”

The goal is to elect Democrats who will “fight like an actual opposition party to an authoritarian regime.”

I wrote a couple weeks ago about Public Citizen’s 2026 plans for litigation, investigation, and advocacy in areas including Trump’s grift, health care, corporate subsidies, immigrant rights, and open government.

The leadership team at Protect Democracy is optimistic. “We are going to win,” Isaac Gilles and Ian Bassin wrote last week. Trump, they believe, “is losing the race against time and has failed to sufficiently consolidate power before becoming deeply unpopular, which was the recipe we knew would be necessary to prevent a full-on collapse into autocracy.”

They acknowledge that “extreme danger still exists for our democracy, and many communities in our country still live in daily terror from the regime’s abuses,” but they argue that “we can now see a path to defeating the autocratic assault and turning this crisis into opportunity.”